I’ll tell you about the great resentments of the big electors
The election of the presidents of the Republic between history and news
I don't know how much coal the Befana has put in the stocking destined for Massimo D'Alema. I imagine a lot of it for the position he has earned as secretary, or thereabouts, of the party of resentments that the good Antonio Polito evoked in the Corriere della Sera writing about the return of "Baffino" on the front pages of the newspapers.
Polito rightly accused D'Alema of the electoral fiasco of the improvised party with Pier Luigi Bersani and other comrades, leaving in 2017 the Pd that Matteo Renzi insisted on wanting to lead despite having lost, or precisely because of having lost the referendum on the constitutional reform with 40 per cent of yes against 60 per cent of no. Which was a result that could still be translated discreetly, and alone, into parliamentary seats if Sergio Mattarella, who arrived in 2015 at the Quirinale precisely at the heart of Renzi, had granted him early elections. On the other hand, the rejection of the reform exhausted a legislature that was in danger from the beginning but protected as a function of that reform. However, there was no way. Mattarella did not want to know, much less Paolo Gentiloni who was also pushed to Palazzo Chigi by Renzi himself. That therefore there would be some reason for resentment, and not only against D'Alema who in turn, being scrapped, could always justify it in regard to Renzi.
As you can see, it is a sum or an intersection of resentments, I repeat, which can well be evoked, and not only by and in the terms basically contained by Polito, more than I have just done by picking up the ball. Where the Corriere editorialist is wrong, in my opinion, is in the recommendation to "secularize" resentments in the presidential elections, as Nenni did when he retired in 1964 from the race to the Quirinale to let Saragat pass, who had also split the socialist party in 1947 , or Craxi and Natta in 1985 by voting for Cossiga.
According to Polito, the socialist leader could still blame the latter for the harsh and mournful management of the kidnapping Moro as Interior Minister, and the communist leader instead of the story of the terrorist son of Carlo Donat-Cattin, for which Enrico Berlinguer had tried to put him on trial, albeit a cousin, before the Constitutional Court as prime minister.
All true, or partially true, for heaven's sake. Partially at least for the relationship between Craxi and Cossiga because relations between the two had improved even before the presidential elections of 1985, having been able to form two governments between 1979 and 1980 thanks also to the socialists.
The presidential elections scheduled for January 24 have the misfortune not so much to take place as in a fair of resentments, to which D'Alema added his own for a Draghi who would even "self-elect" at the Quirinale and be represented at Palazzo Chigi by the "official" who would be the current minister of the economy, as much as to have become the prerogative of a Parliament that has in fact expired or delegitimized.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-i-grandi-risentimenti-dei-grandi-elettori/ on Sun, 09 Jan 2022 06:24:25 +0000.